the gentleman from california. mr. dreier: mr. speaker, let me again express my appreciation to my good friend from worcester and it's been a great honor and privilege to work in a bipartisan way with him on this as i've been privileged to work with many democrats in this house on many different bipartisan issues over the years. i'm getting ready to leave this place, mr. speaker. i'll be in january, as you will, moving on to another life for me it's after nearly 3 1/2 decades. and i got to say to have this -- we have lots of work ahead in the next four weeks to have this trade issue is gratifying for me. as i mentioned i'm leaving, i'm very pleased to for his first speech since being named chairman of the rules committee for the next congress, i'm very happy to yield such time as he may consume to the very thoughtful, dedicated and hardworking gentleman from dallas, mr. sessions. let me say, mr. speaker, that there are lots of hard workers in this house. and there are -- we all learn as kids there's a differentiation between a wor